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  • noun a Hebrew minor prophet
  • noun an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Haggai which are concerned mainly with rebuilding the temples after the Babylonian Captivity

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  • Prophet aggeus (Vulg., ii, 10) says of that of Zorobabel: "Great shall be the glory of this last house more that of the first", because of the coming of the Messias (v, 8-9), they claim that this prophecy was not fulfilled b ecause Christ never entered the second

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

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